From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Oct 26 00:26:21 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id AAA16716 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 26 Oct 1998 00:26:21 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mail.clearsail.net (mail.clearsail.net [207.252.227.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id AAA16706 for ; Mon, 26 Oct 1998 00:26:19 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jase@clearsail.net) Received: from clearsail.net (jase@jase.clearsail.net [207.252.227.254]) by mail.clearsail.net (8.9.1/8.8.8) with ESMTP id CAA18892; Mon, 26 Oct 1998 02:11:47 -0600 (CST) Message-ID: <363421DE.94CF2FE9@clearsail.net> Date: Mon, 26 Oct 1998 01:16:46 -0600 From: Jason McNew X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5b2 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 3.0-CURRENT i386) X-Accept-Language: ja MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Studded CC: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: find... pilot error? References: <3633F0AA.6E4A0B97@clearsail.net> <3634287A.1900A74E@gorean.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Studded wrote: > I don't know what mpg123 expects as an argument, but in a case like > this I fall back on my shell. Assuming you're using Bash or sh, this > should work: [snip] mpg123 expects the name of the file as an argument. For the shell, I'm using tcsh. It could be the shell's fault though, I tried (the origional thing I was trying) under bash and I coulden't get it to go at all. As an aside, I decided to reinvent the wheel in Perl anyways so I could randomize the list, properly quote files with spaces in them (I have a few... legacy fat32 partitons...), and silence find's erros when it tries to search restricted dirs. Thanks for your help! :) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message